The 25th Annual Blue Mountains Music Festival
18th, 19th and 20th of March 2022
John Butler, Kasey Chambers
Lior & Domini, ThornBird, Harry Manx (Canada)
The Grigoryan Brothers, Dom Turner & The Rural Blues Project
Whitetop Mountaineers (USA), 19-Twenty, Kerryn Fields (NZ)
Kee’ahn, MZAZA, Miss Eileen & King Lear
Rory Ellis & The Devil’s Right Hand, Montgomery Church
Den Hanrahan & The Rum Runners, Saije, Mic Conway with Robbie Long
The Blues Preachers, Linda Mizzi Trio, Eagle and the Wolf
Kelly Brouhaha, Big Merino, Nic Danta, The Weeping Willows
Phil Davidson, Pat Drummond, Jimmi Carr, Jerrah Patston
Isobel Knight, Aurora Li
The Wagana Dancers and Uptown Brown
Blue Mountains Music Festival have just announced new additions to the October line-up that include – ThornBird, Harry Manx (Canada), Whitetop Mountaineers (USA) and Kelly Brouhaha with more to be announced.
Vikki Thorn of The Waifs comes to BMMF as her solo project ThornBird. Vikki describes her self-titled debut album by saying, “I wanted to make an album that has its own sway and swagger, untethered from a musical past that was defined by a couple of hippy kids travelling in a camper van and went on to have a hit song and win a couple of ARIAs. It’s a good story and it’s still a great journey. As a musician and a mother I’ve lived a few lives and this collection of songs reflect that.” We are looking forward to hearing ThornBird’s soulful music at BMMF in October.
Harry Manx, beloved Canadian multi-instrumentalist will return to the Blue Mountains Music Festival in October. Known for blending “Indian folk melodies with slide guitar blues” Harry’s sound is unique and we can’t wait to welcome Harry back to Katoomba.
The Whitetop Mountaineers are Martha Spencer and Jackson Cunningham, an old-time country music duo from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Expect to hear old time country duet singing, up-tempo fiddle, clawhammer banjo, bluegrass mandolin and guitar instrumentals with a good dose of high energy Appalachian dancing.
Kelly Brouhaha is an award-winning singer songwriter who plays a blend of Americana Soul. Her latest album Unplugged hit #1 on the AMRAP radio charts amd was the ABC Country Feature Album June 17, 2021. Kelly is also a sought-after session musician, known for lending backing vocals, percussion & guitar to some of Australia’s finest, including Beccy Cole, Lyn Bowtell, Amber Joy Poulton & many more. We are delighted that Kelly will be bringing her big blues and soulful country to BMMF.
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18 February 2022
The 25th Annual Blue Mountains Music Festival
18th, 19th and 20th of March 2022
With less than 5 weeks to go and after two postponements, we are excited to be counting down to the 25th Blue Mountains Music Festival on the 18th, 19th and 20th of March in Katoomba.
The 25th Festival welcomes headline acts – Australian ARIA award winning country-folk singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers and roots superstar John Butler, along with ARIA award winner Lior who will be performing with emerging Melbourne songwriter Domini Forster, Juno nominated contemporary folk singer-songwriter Irish Mythen (Can), high-energy blue-grass trio 19-Twenty, guitarist virtuosos Slava & Leonard Grigoryan, contemporary blues guitarist Lloyd Spiegel, highland five-piece Elephant Sessions (Scot), folk, soul and blues singer Gaby Moreno (Guatemala), French/Balkan influenced folk group Mzaza, roots based two-piece Lily & King, The Spooky Men’s Chorale, acoustic folk/americana duo Montgomery Church, Saije, Katoomba singer-songwriter Nic Danta, acoustic trad folk and roots performers Den Hanrahan & The Rum Runners, alt country duo Eagle and the Wolf, indie songstress Isobel Knight, Archie Roach Foundation Award winner Kee’ahn, Mic Conway with Robbie Long who combine comedy, music and magic, The Weeping Willows, Big Merino, Phil Davidson, Jerrah Patston, Linda Mizzi Trio, The Blues Preachers, Aurora Li, Jimmi Carr and local favourite Pat Drummond.
New artists recently added to the 2022 line-up are: outstanding blues performer Dom Turner and his ‘Rural Blues Project’, Katherine Priddy – described as one of most exciting young performers on the U.K folk scene who will be performing with George Boomsma. from Perch Creek come Miss Eileen & King Lear, Fred Smith and his band, New Zealand singer-songwriter Kerryn Fields and it wouldn’t be the music festival without Melbourne’s one-man band Uptown Brown.
We are looking forward to March and a weekend of the best folk, roots and blues music, songwriters’ and instrumentals circles, Heartland Conversations, Poet’s Breakfasts, Wagana Dancers and roving performers.
Weekend, Day Tickets and Saturday Evening Tickets are available now at www.bmff.org.au
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30 October 2019
The 25th Annual Blue Mountains Music Festival
13th, 14th and 15th of March 2020
Early Bird Tickets
Australian performers include the multi ARIA award-winning singer-songwriters John Butler and Kasey Chambers, Oz blues legends The Backsliders, blues and roots trio 19-Twenty and the irreverent antics of The Sandman and Flacco. They will be joined by Australian singer-songwriters Mama Kin Spender, local blues and funk slide-guitarist Claude Hay, Shellie Morris, and Djakapurra, award-winning Indigenous performer Emily Wurramara, modern blues guitarist Lloyd Spiegel, two-piece musical circus Lily and King, the trad-folk and roots sounds of Den Hanrahan & the Rum Runners, acoustic folk duo Montgomery Church, multi-instrumentalists Saije, country music artist Jed Zarb, along with local singer-songwriters Nic Danta, Phil Davidson, Eagle and the Wolf, Isobel Knight and Jerrah Patson.
We welcome back award-winning American folk and traditional music artist Rhiannon Giddens who will be joined by Francesco Turrisi. Also from the USA are legendary musician Kieren Kane with gifted songwriter Rayna Gellert, The Turner Brown Band – a collaboration between Australian slide guitarist Dom Turner and U.S. lap slide-guitar and vocal sensations Nikki D Brown and sisters Gloria Brown and Tamika Webb, old school country/folk and roots artist Will Kimbrough and American bluegrass duo the Whitetop Mountaineers.
Joining this terrific lineup from Canada are Irish-born Canadian singer-songwriter Irish Mythen, energetic modern folksters The East Pointers, Quebecois trio È.T.È., Celtic group Coig, natural storyteller Ian Sherwood, and the musical revelry of The Burning Hell.
From Ireland, we welcome international folk legend Eleanor McEvoy and soulful vocalist SON. Travelling to Katoomba from Scotland come three Celtic bands — Fara, The Jellyman’s Daughter and the lively The Langan Band. From the U.K we have reggae, jazz and soul saxophonist YolanDa Brown, one of the UK’s finest folk guitarists and songwriters John Smith, political singer-songwriter Grace Petrie and returning high-energy bluegrass band Flats & Sharps.
If that’s not enough we also welcome Startijenn, a five-piece folk band from France playing Breton music that will get you up and dancing.
The RSL Blues Room and the Pavillion Stage will be back for our very special 25th-anniversary festival.